Safari bookmarks and folders

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Safari bookmarks and folders

I followed some online advice about how to sort Safari bookmark folders but copying them to Finder. They sorted ok but I lost all my non-folder bookmarks and now have to manually re-enter folder names in Safari before I can copy and paste the URL contents. What pain.

If anyone can help me find my bookmarks per se, please let me know how. I tried to use Time Capsule and restore the bookmark plist but nothing happened. The links in folders are probably more important right now.

The other thing - I used to have an app that sorted Safari's bookmarks and folders but I can't remember it's name...if someone can help, please do.

iMac, macOS High Sierra (10.13.1)

Posted on Jun 9, 2018 6:23 PM

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dominic23

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Jun 10, 2018 4:40 AM in response to mulberrywriter

Restore Bookmarks from iCloud

“If you need to access a bookmark that you deleted within the last 30 days, you can recover it from iCloud.com.

Just click Settings, and under Advanced, click Restore Bookmarks.”

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203519

Click iCloud.com.

Sign in.

Click Settings. Scroll down to “Advanced’ and then Restore Bookmarks.

Select an archive, click “Restore”,

When restoration is finished, click "OK", “Done”

After a while, you will receive a notification to the effect.

Sort bookmarks

Backup your Mac.

Update macOS to macOS 10.13.4.

How to update your software ? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201541

Safari 11.1 that comes with this update has sort feature built in.

Available for: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, macOS Sierra 10.12.6, and macOS High Sierra 10.13.4

This will sort Bookmarks alphabetically.

Note: A user cannot reverse this once bookmarks are sorted.

Safari 11.1

Sort Bookmarks

1. Click Sidebar icon in Safari toolbar.

2. Right click the Folder to be sorted.

3. Scroll down to “Sort By”.

Choose either “Name” or “Address” from the pop-up menu.

• Enables sorting Safari bookmarks by name or URL by right clicking and choosing ‘Sort By…’

https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1962?locale=en_US

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Eric Root

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Jun 10, 2018 8:45 AM in response to mulberrywriter

Safari Bookmarks sort, for those running Snow Leopard OS or later versions of OS X there is SafariSort:

http://www.safarisort.com/

Safari Sort - Bookmarks lose sort

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Answer 3

Jun 10, 2018 3:26 PM in response to dominic23

Thank you dominic23. I had no idea that Advance section existed - so helpful. I have, however, re-downloaded SafariSort, a free app I used to have and must somehow have deleted - it actually sorts folders as well which Apple doesn't seem to do, only sorts within folders which is a pain. I also bought BookmarkApp which helps sort and gets rid of duplicates of both folders and bookmarks.

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